Summary

I am a System Administrator with experience in many aspects of server system administration and automation/configuration management. I am also well-versed in Ruby with prior experience in Java and PHP. Open-source projects and communities are a passion and I'm currently an active member of GitLab and Chef communities.

In daily work I am exposed to a wide variety of technologies including:

Rails/Ruby

Chef Configuration Management (including Chef Provisioning)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

GitLab

Logstash

Sensu Monitoring

Elasticsearch

Nginx

Tomcat

My strengths include troubleshooting complex issues and researching/implementing new technologies. I love a challenge and enjoy learning new things every day.

Work experience

Aug 2012Present

System Administrator/Supervisor

Buckle

Work with a team to manage a quickly growing infrastructure that supports Buckle's e-commerce site and internal web systems

20062010

Bachelor of Science - Information Management Systems

Chadron State College

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OPEN-SOURCE INVOLVEMENT

Chef Brigade is a new community organization that hopes to preserve the future of Chef (Software) cookbooks. As cookbook maintainers'​ interests and jobs change over time their ability to continue updating cookbooks may diminish. While Chef Brigade is still in the organizational phase, it is our hope that cookbook authors will build their cookbooks under the Chef Brigade Github and Supermarket organizations. If/when they need to move on, or if they need additional maintainer help, the brigade will help search for new maintainers to step in. This ensures end-users don't find themselves using an abandoned cookbook with too many open issues/pull requests.

As an active member of the GitLab community, I was invited to be a part of the community core team. The core team consists of about a dozen members that serve as community leaders. We help triage issues and merge/pull requests in GitHub and GitLab and interact with the community via IRC, Gitter and GitLab forum. We are unpaid and participate in our free-time because we love GitLab and want to help the project and the community.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Served 3 years total with one year as co-chair person. The Board of Education is responsible for overseeing all Christian education at Holy Cross and works alongside the staff and volunteers to plan classes, activities, and other educational events.